I don't like the idea of talking down to kids. I think I was talked down to, and you rebel against that.
Today's average American is more apt to rebel against a tennis shoe not coming in the right color than against the slow erosion of our democratic freedom.
My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us.
I didn't want to be the rebel who was bottom of the class, so I worked hard. They wanted me to stay on for A-Levels, but football came calling - that was my real love.
I knew by heart all the dialogue of James Dean's films; I could watch Rebel Without a Cause a hundred times over.
Are you saying that the Rebel Alliance were religious terrorists and Yoda was a benefit cheat?
Jim Stark: Nobody talks to children. Judy: No, they just tell them.
Jim Stark: I don't know what to do anymore. Except maybe die.
Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself - limits where minds meet, and in meeting, begin to exist.
We're all bloggers and punks and rebels with cameras. There is absolutely no respect for career journalists anymore.
My father rebelled ferociously against his conservative upbringing where his father physically abused him.
People ask if my parents are hippies, but they're actually very conservative. A girl called Rebel sang at their wedding, and that's where my name came from.
I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.
Pain moves us forward, changing us into something else, something we need to be.
We can help pave the roads of those around us, but we can't choose their direction.
I believe we make our own destinies, every last one of us.
the difference between a rebel and a patriot depends upon who is in power at the moment.
Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.
Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.
Rebel children, I urge you, fight the turgid slick of conformity with which they seek to smother your glory.
